The 100 Best Places to Eat and Drink in Shanghai
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The best places to eat and drink in Shanghai, according to the experts: Michelin Guide, The 50, and Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Fu He Hui comes out on top.
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Ling Long and T'ang Court hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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Three floors of earth-toned private dining rooms sit quietly behind the plane trees of the Former French Concession, feeling less like a restaurant than a place designed to lower your blood pressure. Fu He Hui is vegetarian fine dining with two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, where set menus rotate quarterly and each course spotlights a single vegetable, fruit, or flower, paired with regional teas.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 The 50: #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- The 50 #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. Ling Long
Contemporary Chinese
White tablecloths, gloved service, crimson walls hung with avant-garde Chinese art, and a menu that gets progressively weirder as the night goes on. Ling Long is a fine dining restaurant on the Bund built around the concept of umami, with an eight-course set that traces a cross-China journey through regional terroirs. It holds a Michelin star and ranks on Asia's 50 Best list. The room is formal; the cooking is decidedly not.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #9 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
- The 50 #9 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 2. T'ang Court
Cantonese
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 2. Taian Table
German
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 3 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 5. Da Vittorio Shanghai
Italian
The Cerea family's fine-dining room sits on the third floor above the Bund, all comfortable bourgeois elegance with a wine list to match. The kitchen hunts down local Chinese produce and treats it with Italian discipline, which sounds like a concept and eats like a conviction. Paccheri alla Vittorio travels well. Two Michelin stars and a spot in the top five of 50 Top Italy's global ranking confirm the room is playing at a serious altitude.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Top Italy #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 7. Yi Long Court
Cantonese
Art Deco screens divide the dining room into something that feels almost private, despite the scale, and the color palette leans deep enough that you half expect a saxophonist to materialize. This is the Peninsula's flagship Cantonese restaurant, holding a Michelin star, where the kitchen pairs classical technique with a quietly modern hand. The eight-seat chef's table is the room's open secret for anyone who knows to ask.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 7. Yong Yi Ting
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Rank 9. 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Modern Italian
The mirrored ceiling doubles the snowy tablecloths, which tells you everything about the register here. Umberto Bombana's fine dining room, named after his favorite Fellini film, holds two Michelin stars and a Discovery nod from the World's 50 Best. Besuited waiters can discourse at length on Italian wine regions, and the aperitivo bar runs a negroni fortified with sweet wine and grapefruit bitters, so there's no reason to rush to your table anyway.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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An elegant white villa in Changning where dinner requires advance planning, because many dishes must be pre-ordered before you arrive. This is refined Chaoshan cooking, the kind built on poaching, steaming, and braising, with light, precise seafood and vegetarian preparations served across five private rooms. There is no walk-in crowd, no open dining room, and no sense of hurry. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 9. Bao Li Xuan
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 9. Canton 8 (Huangpu)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 9. Ji Pin Court
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 9. The House of Rong
Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 9. Tou Zao
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
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Rank 17. 102 House
Cantonese
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, which is a lot of competition for what's on the plate. This is a formal Cantonese banquet restaurant on the Bund, small enough that a few private rooms account for most of the seating. The kitchen revives a style of multi-course celebratory cooking that had largely receded from view, with seasonal menus and a sweet-and-sour pork whose sauce rotates by season. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #29 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: #6 · Elite 15 Asia
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
- The 50 #29 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #6 · Elite 15 Asia
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 18. Canton Table
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Cheng Long Hang (Huangpu)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Da Dong (Xuhui)
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Fu 1015
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Fu 1039
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Gastro Esthetics at DaDong
Contemporary Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Huaiyang Delights (Jingan)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Lao Zheng Xing
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Lei Garden (Pudong)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Lei Garden (Xuhui)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Lu Style (Huangpu)
Shandong
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Maison Lameloise
French
Floor 68 of the Shanghai Tower, with The Bund spread out below like a very expensive screensaver, is where the Burgundy institution Maison Lameloise set up its China outpost. It's a fine-dining French restaurant, the kind where the tablecloths mean business, turning classic Gallic technique toward ingredients that cross cultures with more grace than the concept deserves to sound on paper. The Shanghai kitchen holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Ming Court (Minhang)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Moose (Changning)
Jiangzhe
Antlers on the white walls, no moose on the menu, a century-old Shanghai mansion doing its best impression of a gallery. This is a polished Jiangzhe restaurant where the chef's decades in Huaiyang cooking show in dishes built around technique rather than trend. The crispy white teat fish, a sea cucumber preparation that arrives in a crackling crust, is exactly the kind of thing that earns a Michelin star without needing to explain itself.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Moose (Pudong)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Narisawa
Japanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Obscura
Chinese
A private collection of Chinese antiques lines the walls of this low-lit, polished-wood dining room inside the Tangxiang Cultural Space on Xikang Road. Obscura holds a Michelin star for its tasting-menu cooking, which folds Sichuan tradition and forgotten regional techniques into something genuinely its own. The chef duo spent a year crossing China before opening, and the research shows on the plate without feeling like homework.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Ren He Guan (Xuhui)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Seventh Son
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Sole
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Vivant by Johnny Pham
Contemporary French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Wu You Xian
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Xin Rong Ji (West Nanjing Road)
Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Yong Fu (Hongkou)
Ningbo Zhejiang
Ningbo cooking occupies a specific lane: intensely briny, fermented-forward, and proud of it. This upscale restaurant on the 56th floor of Raffles City The Bund leans into that tradition, anchoring the menu around wild seafood pulled from the East China Sea that morning. The room runs to aubergine walls, linen, and chandeliers, which creates a pleasant contrast with dishes built around deliberately pungent ingredients. It holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 18. Yong Fu (Huangpu)
Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Yue Hai Tang
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 18. Zhou She (Minhang)
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 51. Meet the Bund
Fujian
The brick-red interior is a deliberate nod to the Minnan courtyard houses of southern Fujian, set against floor-to-ceiling windows with the Shanghai skyline doing its thing beyond. This is Fujianese fine dining, a regional cuisine that prizes the clean, layered flavour of the ingredient itself over any attempt to dress it up. The tea pairings run from jasmine to aged pu-erh, and the kitchen holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.
The awards
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Rank 52. La Bourriche 133
French Seafood
Dim as the bottom of the East China Sea, this French seafood restaurant in Shanghai's Rockbund sits where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and the room feels like it knows that. Leather banquettes, travertine walls, and restrained plating frame a menu that shifts with whatever the ocean is offering that season. The chef came up at Odette in Singapore, and the technique shows. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.
The awards
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The awards
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Rank 53. Pony Up
American Cocktail Bar
Checkered tiles, timber walls, and green leather stools that look like a diner lost its passport and ended up in Huangpu. Pony Up is an all-day bar on Jinxian Road, open from early afternoon so the post-lunch crowd has somewhere respectable to be. The signature Cigar cocktail layers vermouth, absinthe, and a house smoke-infused spirit. Asia's 50 Best Bars has it on their Discovery list.
The awards
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Rank 53. Sober Company
Modern Chinese Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar that doubles as a scavenger hunt: find Tipsy, the secret bar hidden somewhere in the building, and you've earned bragging rights for the evening. Sober Company runs three floors of drinking and eating, but Sober Society is the heart of it, where the team behind Speak Low works through a menu of cocktails built around Chinese ingredients. It has landed on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #81 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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Rank 56. Speak Low
Cocktail Bar
You enter through a sliding bookshelf inside a cocktail equipment shop, which sets the tone nicely. This three-floor cocktail bar from Shingo Gokan has long since shed any real secrecy, but the ritual of getting in still earns its keep. The second floor is where the serious drinking happens; the top floor, rare whiskies and a members-only door. The crowd knows what it ordered before it sits down.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 56. The Union Trading Company
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 58. Jade on 36
Contemporary French
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 59. Meet the Bund
Fujian
Min Cai, the cooking of Fujian province, rarely gets the fine dining treatment, and Shanghai's 56th floor is an unlikely place to find it done seriously. Meet the Bund is a formal tasting restaurant where the chef reframes a regional tradition that tends to get overlooked in favor of flashier Chinese cuisines. The broth for the signature slow-cooked abalone dish takes several days to build, which tells you the kitchen's general attitude toward shortcuts.
The awards
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: #4 · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 60. 157 Shi Fang
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. A Yong Mian Guan (Dongshufang Road)
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Blossom
Teochew
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Cong's Kitchen
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Easeful Cuisine (Jingan)
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Gong De Lin (West Nanjing Road)
Vegan Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Hao Sheng
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. He Shan Mian Jia
Shanghainese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Ho Hung Kee
Chinese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Jingmei Wuxi Noodles (Yanping Road)
Wuxi Jiangsu Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Lan Xin (Jinxian Road)
Traditional Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Lao Di Fang Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Lu Bo Lang
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Mao Long
Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Mi Thai
Thai
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Nanxiang Steamed Bun
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Ning Hai Shi Fu
Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Ou Yue Zun Xian
Wenzhou Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Polux
Bistro French
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Rong Cuisine (Huangpu)
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Rongjia Noodles Soup with Yellow Croaker (Jingan)
Chinese Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Tan
Sichuan
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. The Lakeside Veggie
Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. The Taste of Huzhou
Zhejiang Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Wang Lu (Pudong)
Jiangxi
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Xiao Tao Mian Guan
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Yangzhou Fan Dian (Huangpu)
Huaiyang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. YongFoo Élite
Traditional Shanghainese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 60. YongFu Mini (Pudong)
Seafood
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Yu Du Lao Wei Mian
Zhejiang
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Yu Ge Zhanjiang (Jingan)
Cantonese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 60. Yunhe Noodle (Huangpu)
Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
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A cocktail bar on Nanchang Road where the design philosophy comes from Virgil Abloh's 3% rule: change an existing thing by just that much and it becomes something new. The shelves hold a select few bottles, the lighting is considered, and nothing extra survives the edit. The drinks menu is equally spare, which either feels like restraint or curation depending on your mood, but the room makes a strong argument for less.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 95. Sky59 Rooftop Bar
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 95. Suzu Bar
Japanese Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 95. T12 : Lab
Coffee
The awards
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The awards
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